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2007-07-31 Home Front: Culture Wars
Revenge of the postmodernist nerd narrative
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Posted by Mike 2007-07-31 07:17|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 What a load. But typical of the NYT.

The obsession is to call certain customs "derivative", assert that they come from another culture, provide a supposed "trace" that always ends up with the parent culture being one that is currently labelled as "oppressed". This allows the CURRENT members of the "oppressed" culture to claim credits and puff themselves up as being more influential than they are.

Here, the idiot admits she can't trace it to any culture that's officially labelled "oppressed", but can't condemn it as part of the "oppressor" class, because she can't detect elements from it either. So she makes a stab and calls it "hyperwhite" because of the CLOTHES.

Shithead. I'm part of the nerd culture, and clothes HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, as if we were goddamn Beverly Hills airheads obsessed with FASHION. We were so wrapped up in the cool intricacies of electronic artifacts, we just fell into the habit of wearing what was handed to us by our "white" parents. We were into learning and made high grades, but given the Ghetto idea that high grades===Oreo cookie (black on the outside, white on the inside), we hardly got any black nerds: First one I ever saw was the Black kid in "Bloom County". We were ostracized by our white peers, but the black/hispanic kids at my school embraced me, probably because Nerds are TRANSPARENT. What you see is what you get, and our different drummer drummed a tune whose verses said that brains, not color, counted.

It was OUR culture who created the tools that allowed people of ALL OTHER CULTURES to find each other and keep their cultures going.

Hey bitch, when your computer goes on the fritz and ya can't do your work, let's hope the nerd you call to fix it didn't read your article and take insult.
Posted by Ptah">Ptah  2007-07-31 10:29|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2007-07-31 10:29|| Front Page Top

#2 From the article:

As a linguist, Bucholtz understands nerdiness first and foremost as a way of using language.

And this is why her entire analysis is bogus. As a physicist, I understand nerdiness first and foremost as a desire to know what makes stuff go boom, and how laser beams work, and that space actually has 27.5[1] dimensions. Linguist nerds thrill at knowing how to say "Kiss my ass, professor," in Sanskrit, !Kung, and Quechua.

[1]Or whatever today's number is. I know a guy who quit physics when he heard that. Can you imagine?? (He couldn't.)
Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-07-31 11:48||   2007-07-31 11:48|| Front Page Top

#3 What is a nerd? Mary Bucholtz, a linguist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been working on the question for the last 12 years.

Wonder what it's like to waste twelve years of your life?
Posted by tu3031 2007-07-31 11:56||   2007-07-31 11:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Angie, they lost me when they started putting the Bosons in the nucleus sideways.
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-07-31 12:10||   2007-07-31 12:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Angie Schultz,

They're small dimensions.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-07-31 12:56||   2007-07-31 12:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Does anyone sense that she's projecting rather than analysing.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-07-31 12:58||   2007-07-31 12:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Does anyone sense that she's projecting rather than analysing

Ding! We have a winnah!

The whole thing to me sounds like one part of post-grad grantsmanship writing mixed in with 3 parts of fermented white guilt, baked untill half done. Frost with a nice thick layer of projected rage, and sprinkled with shavings of intelectual insecurity. Serves one (neurotic twit).
Posted by N Guard 2007-07-31 14:02||   2007-07-31 14:02|| Front Page Top

#8 LOL, N Guard!

I, as the king of the nerds in my day, appreciate that one!
Posted by BA 2007-07-31 14:08||   2007-07-31 14:08|| Front Page Top

#9 NGuard wins the coveted "Snark of the Day" award!
Posted by Mike 2007-07-31 14:32||   2007-07-31 14:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Yay me. It's just that I forced myself to read through the tripe, and not only does she bore me with her fermented white guilt/rage/insecurity/projection-- she dosent even begin to explore the glory that is nerddom! I should know, I are one. And I have the D&D library to prove it! (I think there is a huge overlap between nerd and geek.)
Posted by N Guard 2007-07-31 18:41||   2007-07-31 18:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Hoo Boy!
Posted by Parabellum  2007-07-31 19:50||   2007-07-31 19:50|| Front Page Top

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